Adjustable combined shade and hood holder.



C. G. RUSH.

ADJUSTABLE COMBINED SHADE AND HOOD HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 28, 1913.

Patented Dec. 30, 1913.

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ADJUSTABLE COMBINED SHADE AND HOOD HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 30, 1913.

Application filed March 28, 1913. Serial No. 757,309.

To all whom it may concern .Be it known that I, CHARLES G. RUsH, a citizen of the United States, residingat Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Adjustable Combined Shade and Hood Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to electric light fixtures, and particularly to such fixtures in which one or more lamps are mounted on the face of a fixture, hood, canopy or receptacle secured to the ceiling or side wall for concealing the socket and the wiring connections to the lamp.

The invention is especially applicable to apparatus of this class in which the protecting fixture hood is of porcelain, thin brass or other more or less fragile material.

The special object of this invention is to provide practically concealed means for mounting the fixture hood and the shade holder with its glassware upon a single wall or ceiling support, like a gas pipe end, projecting therefrom, in such a way that the hood is itself supported at a plurality of points thereby reducing the liability of breakage and that the device is adjustable to, within limits, accommodate hoods of different heights and to allow movement of the hood for making wiring connections.

The invention consists in a device for carrying out the foregoing object which can be easily and satisfactorily made and installed, which in operation carries out the desired results and is not readily liable to get out of order.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional side view taken on the line 1 of Fig. '3. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of the entire device as it appears in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the device removed from the wall or ceiling support.

In the preferred form of the device illustrated in the drawings it is suspended from a ceiling wall 10, but it ma just as well be attached to a vertical si e wall or an angular wall in a room without departing from this invention.

The ceiling 10 is provided with the usual projecting plpe end or fixture stud 12 haw ing on its end screw threads 14 and one problem solved is to satisfactorily attach the bowl shaped hood 16 and'shade holder 18 thereto so as to do away with theattachment of the fixture hood to the ceiling by" .clear it, as described, and

well lmown exposed attaching means such as screws through the rim into the ceiling.

Thefixture hood itself is provided with a This intermediate support has at its smaller end 28 screw threads adapted to engagethe screw threads 14 of pipe or stud 12, heretofore described, and has at its larger end anannular flange 30 having an opening 32 of greater diameter than the dome 24 so that the socket -dome may, when the parts are brought together, pass entirely inside of the intermediate member 27, though normally the member 27 is made of a less height than the interior height. of the hood, asv shown in the drawings.

Extending through the base of the shade holder 18, the central portion ofthe' fixture hood'16, and screw threaded into the flange 30 of the member 27 are a plurality of screws 34 adapted to be tightened up for the purpose of, as shown, rigidly securing the hood and the shade holder to the inter mediate member 27. .These screws 34', are, as shown, of such a length that the member-27, shade holder and screws may be used with hoods of different heights and the screws 34 are, as shown, arranged around they dome 24 of the hood so as to entirely the heads 36 of the screws are entirely concealed within the shade holder 18. It will also be seen that there being a plurality of such screws 34:, preferably only 2, the device rigidly clamps the hood 16 against the wall and as thestrain is thus distributed on the various screws the danger ofbreaking the porcelain around any one of the screwsis greatly reduced.

When an electric lamp shade is attached to the shade holder 18 by the screws 38 of ordinaryconstruction, provided for the purpose, and alamp is placed-inside the shade and in the socket 22 said lamp is supported from the wall by-the hood or dome 16. of

ornamental appearance held rigidly in place without any disfiguring visible securing devices.

It will be noticed that thescrews 34 are long enough so that by loosening them the hood may be lowered sufliciently so that the wires 26'may be spliced. Cotter pins 40 are also provided so that the screws cannot be accidentally removed from the member 27 thus dropping the hood and shade holder and breaking them.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a device of the class described,-the combination of a hollow fixture hood adapted to be secured to a wall, the same being provided with a central lamp socket, an intermediate supporting member inside the hoodstraddling said socket device, means for securing the intermediate member to the wall, and means for securing the hood to said intermediate member located close to the socket so as to be practically concealed.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination of a hollow fixture hoodto be secured to a wall provided at its center with an electric lamp socket, an intermediate member within the hood straddling said lamp socket, a single connection between the intermediate member and the wall, and a plurality of connecting devices between the intermediate member and the hood arranged in proximity to but clear of the lamp opening, for the purposes set forth.

3. In a device of the class described, in

combination with a fixture hood to be at-- tached to a wall and a shade holder to be attached thereto, a plurality of screws passing through the shade holder and hood in immediate proximity to a lamp socket in the hood and an intermediate connecting member between the hood and the wall engaged at one end by the said screws and adapted at the other end to be detachably connected to a wall support.

4. In a device of the class described,

through the shade holder and hood in mediate proximity to a lamp socketin the hood and an intermediateconnecting mem-. ber between the hood-and the-wall engaged at one end by the said screws'and adapted at the other end to be detachably'connected to a wall support, said screws being of sufficientlength to permit of substantial adjustment of the hood withreference to the support. I v 5. In a device of the class described, in combination with awau having a fixture stud extending therefrom, a fixture hood adapted to cover said stud, an intermediate connecting member inside the hood screw threaded upon said stud, and means detach,- ably and adjustablyconnecting. the hood to said intermediate member at a plurality of different points, said last mentioned means clearing but being in close proximity tothe lamp socket carried by the hood. 6. In a device of the class described, in combination with a wall and a fixture stud extending therefrom, a hollow hood covering said stud and provided on its outer central point with an electric light socket, a

shade roller for said socket, screws passing through said shade holder and the hood, and

'an intermediate connecting member within the hood straddling the lamp socket thereof, entered and engaged by one end of said screws and at its other end screw threaded upon said fixture stud, the whole for the 7 purposes set forth.

CHARLES e. RUSH.

Witnesses:

DWIGHT 1B. CHEEVER, Max S. RosnNzwEm. 

